Autumn Mythology

Your answers to Chapter 2: Vampires… ‘What drains you of your energy and how do you get it back?

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Each month a multi-disciplinary group of artists respond to your stories and give a creative response to them all as a whole.

Georgie J White

responding to your vampires…

Georgie has created an incredibly entertaining video which you will be able to see on Instagram and Youtube shortly! Here are her thoughts behind it:

"I took the footage the days before I gave birth when I had so much pent up energy and frustration. I was done being pregnant and just wanted to kick start labour. All the stories I read suggested spoke to me about frustration and resentment for their current situation, craving a change, and taking control of something. Many of them talked about using up energy, getting their creativity out in dance, song or music, and so that is what I did. I wanted to create a piece that looked like a home video of me dancing in my bedroom, alone, with no care in the world, and with nobody watching. I really went for it and easily got carried away, enjoying the release of energy and giving it my all. It was great to feel expressive with my body after feeling so heavily pregnant and sluggish. I thought about all those times that people have treated me as if I have a disability during pregnancy, and everyone who told me to rest, put my feet up and even, not to do anything at all, just sit and wait for baby to come. Going from being a very active, fit, creative person, to someone who was being told to take it easy, sit at home, not doing anything was very frustrating. Of course I needed to change the speed I did things and my life style a little, but staying active during pregnancy was a priority for me, and I don't think we see enough positive representation of this. Every pregnancy is different, and I was very fortunate to have a very straight forward one where I could still go to the gym, go swimming, dance classes etc, I just had to adapt.

I felt I could relate to a lot of the frustrations in the stories, being sucked of energy by the world around you. What was great was to read that everyone knew how to get their energy back, how they needed to respond to what the world throws at them. It is important to remember that we can choose how to respond to something, and taking control of our emotions can reduce the risk of pain. Adapting, adjusting, and accommodating for your feelings is so important. To check-in with yourself and ask 'How do I wish to handle this, and what is going to be good for me?'.

The music choosen is a little joke, a theme in the last few weeks and a song that my husband and I sang to encourage the baby to 'Get Get Down' and come out.

Additionally, I have added clips from labour inducing exercise videos that I used in the last few weeks to encourage the baby to arrive. He didn't, and took his sweet time being 2 weeks over due. The majority of the exercises are about squatting and bouncing for long periods of time, which I did a lot of. But it was keeping my mind active that I found so important.

Anyway, my baby is here now and it seems very strange looking at this footage now. It was all worth it and reminds me that you have to always keeping going for what you want in life!"